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Was down at Freo Oval this morning, and below is what I noted (in no particular order). I heard some older bloke who was also watching, say to his mate, "This is the hardest I've seen 'em train this early, in the history of the Fremantle Football Club. They're at full intensity already." They did skills drills, then sprints, then broke into forwards, mids, backs and did more drills, then practiced set plays, then went into match practice. (Yes I was there for a while.... 
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1. Haddrill joined in full training - everything. He looked fit and fine with only two rings of tape around his knee. During set-plays he took the FB role, with McPharlin just a little further out.
2. JLo looked pretty good. He also had just the two rings of tape around his knee and he ran and kicked freely during the drills, but came aside and did sprints with Taz, Crowley, Thornton, Gilmore and Collard during the match hit-out.
3. Warnock's nickname is Sticks. During the match prac he tapped a beautiful one down, which Belly roved at full tilt and put through the middle.
He's certainly a lot, lot bigger than when he arrived 14 months ago, but is still very skinny. He'd get murdered by Cox, Everitt, Lade - he must thank his lucky stars that he's on the same team as Sandi!
4. Solly is a big bloke, but not fat. He ran hard and was training with the forwards.
5. Crowley still has that huge brace on his leg, but was running and doing everything up until the actual match.
6. Hase looks sharp, fit, healthy, hungry - worked harder than anyone out there today I thought. Just pushed himself and pushed himself and pushed himself some more.
7. Chris Smith is bloody big for an 18 year old.
8. Brock O'Brien is pretty big bodied also, but looks quite unfit compared to the other blokes. But he's coming back from a bad hamstring injury isn't he? He did some skills work with Blackie and the other rookies, and then ran laps with Foster. Well actually got lapped by Foster who appears to be a running machine!
9. I don't know if Foster is carrying an injury, but apart from some handball stuff away from the main group, all he did was run. And run, and run, and run. He sprinted laps. Seriously I mean sprinted. Lap after lap and hardly looked out of breath at all. 50-sec laps of Freo Oval. He's fast and he's fit... Smith and Rumble had been doing drills with him, but they disappeared (into the gym I suspect), but he just kept running. Then O'Brien went in and Foster kept running.
10. Collard stood aside with Malaxos - and Stav talked to him the whole time pointing stuff out. Then he did some running with Stockden, then the other sprinters joined in. Taz game him a slap on the back and a "let's go CC" while they were running.
11. Mourish joined in everything, with both Harvey and malaxos calling out to him to keep at it, good work, run over there, stand there, stay with him. It was only during the match that he stood aside with malaxos, who again appeared to talk to him the whole time, pointing stuff out. he needs to slim down a bit, then add some muscle and he looks like he'll be a bolter in another season or two.
12. Blackie did handball drills with the rookie group, then did some running on his own. Didn't join in with any of the kicking stuff or any other training. Just kept up the running.
13. Walker looks bigger, fitter and more defined. More than once I looked and thought - who is that guy? Reckon he knows it's his last roll of the dice with his contract up and a lot of others over-taking him. Even if he doesn't play, he will keep pressure on the guys playing each week.
14. Thornton looks proppy, sore and only joined in some of the skills but not the match prac. He'll be behind the 8-ball at Rd 1.
15. Sandi - looks big but lean if that makes sense, fit and firing. During the set-plays he received the ball on the HFF and fired off a 40m daisy-cutter which hit Murph on the lead on the chest. Then in the next play, he tapped it, ran to space and marked 30m out. He's looking good!
16. Taz joined in the skills, the forwards work, the sprints, the set-plays (but didn't have a shot when he got the ball, just grubber-kicked it back to the coaches), but went and did sprints during the match prac. He's not at full load, but he must be getting close.
17. No sign of Schammer at all.
When they broke into their groups, it was like this:
Forwards: Mourish, Murphy, Solly, Campbell, bellie, Pav, Gilmore, Taz, Wiz
Mids: Cook, Duff, Browne, Des, Johnno, Macca, Josh, Hase, Ibbo, Drum, Dunn, Crowley, MCarr, Webster, Peake with Sandi, JLo and Warnock.
Backs: well they were quite a way awayso I couldn't see for sure, but I think it's safe to assume it was most everyone else.
When they were doing set-plays they started with Murph and Taz in the square, Pav at CHF and Kiwi in the pocket, and then rotated them. Harvey was standing on the goal line yelling instructions, then told them, "quick the ball's coming in, you work out your structures", which Pav took control of (as you would expect).
That's it for today.
)1. Haddrill joined in full training - everything. He looked fit and fine with only two rings of tape around his knee. During set-plays he took the FB role, with McPharlin just a little further out.
2. JLo looked pretty good. He also had just the two rings of tape around his knee and he ran and kicked freely during the drills, but came aside and did sprints with Taz, Crowley, Thornton, Gilmore and Collard during the match hit-out.
3. Warnock's nickname is Sticks. During the match prac he tapped a beautiful one down, which Belly roved at full tilt and put through the middle.
He's certainly a lot, lot bigger than when he arrived 14 months ago, but is still very skinny. He'd get murdered by Cox, Everitt, Lade - he must thank his lucky stars that he's on the same team as Sandi!4. Solly is a big bloke, but not fat. He ran hard and was training with the forwards.
5. Crowley still has that huge brace on his leg, but was running and doing everything up until the actual match.
6. Hase looks sharp, fit, healthy, hungry - worked harder than anyone out there today I thought. Just pushed himself and pushed himself and pushed himself some more.
7. Chris Smith is bloody big for an 18 year old.
8. Brock O'Brien is pretty big bodied also, but looks quite unfit compared to the other blokes. But he's coming back from a bad hamstring injury isn't he? He did some skills work with Blackie and the other rookies, and then ran laps with Foster. Well actually got lapped by Foster who appears to be a running machine!
9. I don't know if Foster is carrying an injury, but apart from some handball stuff away from the main group, all he did was run. And run, and run, and run. He sprinted laps. Seriously I mean sprinted. Lap after lap and hardly looked out of breath at all. 50-sec laps of Freo Oval. He's fast and he's fit... Smith and Rumble had been doing drills with him, but they disappeared (into the gym I suspect), but he just kept running. Then O'Brien went in and Foster kept running.
10. Collard stood aside with Malaxos - and Stav talked to him the whole time pointing stuff out. Then he did some running with Stockden, then the other sprinters joined in. Taz game him a slap on the back and a "let's go CC" while they were running.
11. Mourish joined in everything, with both Harvey and malaxos calling out to him to keep at it, good work, run over there, stand there, stay with him. It was only during the match that he stood aside with malaxos, who again appeared to talk to him the whole time, pointing stuff out. he needs to slim down a bit, then add some muscle and he looks like he'll be a bolter in another season or two.
12. Blackie did handball drills with the rookie group, then did some running on his own. Didn't join in with any of the kicking stuff or any other training. Just kept up the running.
13. Walker looks bigger, fitter and more defined. More than once I looked and thought - who is that guy? Reckon he knows it's his last roll of the dice with his contract up and a lot of others over-taking him. Even if he doesn't play, he will keep pressure on the guys playing each week.
14. Thornton looks proppy, sore and only joined in some of the skills but not the match prac. He'll be behind the 8-ball at Rd 1.
15. Sandi - looks big but lean if that makes sense, fit and firing. During the set-plays he received the ball on the HFF and fired off a 40m daisy-cutter which hit Murph on the lead on the chest. Then in the next play, he tapped it, ran to space and marked 30m out. He's looking good!
16. Taz joined in the skills, the forwards work, the sprints, the set-plays (but didn't have a shot when he got the ball, just grubber-kicked it back to the coaches), but went and did sprints during the match prac. He's not at full load, but he must be getting close.
17. No sign of Schammer at all.
When they broke into their groups, it was like this:
Forwards: Mourish, Murphy, Solly, Campbell, bellie, Pav, Gilmore, Taz, Wiz
Mids: Cook, Duff, Browne, Des, Johnno, Macca, Josh, Hase, Ibbo, Drum, Dunn, Crowley, MCarr, Webster, Peake with Sandi, JLo and Warnock.
Backs: well they were quite a way awayso I couldn't see for sure, but I think it's safe to assume it was most everyone else.
When they were doing set-plays they started with Murph and Taz in the square, Pav at CHF and Kiwi in the pocket, and then rotated them. Harvey was standing on the goal line yelling instructions, then told them, "quick the ball's coming in, you work out your structures", which Pav took control of (as you would expect).
That's it for today.
